Georg Simmel — "The most intimate relationships are often the most distant."

"All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego, whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in h…"

"The value of an object is not in its usefulness, but in its exchangeability."

"Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one's worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up."

"The fragment is a symbol of the modern condition, where everything is incomplete and fragmented."

"The secret of life is to live as if one were immortal, and to die as if one were mortal."